Newcastle United want £30million for Georginio Wijnaldum, according to Sunday’s newspaper reports.

The Sunday People link the Holland midfielder with Spurs, Liverpool and Everton and claim United won’t even listen to suitors who offer less than £25million.

And they believe that Spurs are the closest to striking a deal because they can offer players in part-exchange. Tottenham fringe men Ryan Mason and Alex Pritchard are not named in the report, but they’re understood to be among the players who would be offered at White Hart Lane.

Just as interesting in the piece by Neil Moxey, the Sunday Mirror’s chief football writer, is a suggestion that Newcastle held an interest in talented midfielder Jordan Ibe and might have asked about his availability as part of any Wijnaldum Anfield switch.

Ibe is going to Bournemouth, who are prepared to spend £15million on the attacking midfielder.

So what to make of the Wijnaldum link? Newcastle are aware that the midfielder wants to play at the top level and his agent is sourcing options.

But Newcastle are going to make any side who wants to sign him pay big – and the Ibe link is an interesting one. United believe that they would be significantly weakening their squad by selling Wijnaldum, so they would need to buy someone of equivalent potential to replace him.

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